Gazing into an empty wine bottle

well not quite, but pretty damn close 😳

The headache cleared with the walk into work and the quiet and soothing environment of the library. There were four of us in this afternoon including Frankie who I like most. She has this habit of coming and saying things to me in a very low voice so only I can hear while I then have to deal with trying not to laugh at what she’s said infront of whoever I am dealing with at the time. She is a total bitch and I like her a lot 😆 The first hour was pretty quiet and I was on shelving duty so I mainly stood around with Frankie and Linda and we talked about a new starter and what we all think of her and I had a very protracted period of helping an elderly man photocopy his vehicle documents for a car he’d just sold. For the second hour I was on the counter so that was books in and out, packing up some items ready to go to other branches and occassional dancing behind the counter when noone was looking :lol:. Then it was tea break time and then I had an hour’s Enquiry Desk training. The Enquiry Desk is hallowed ground, you only get to man that when you are Fully Trained and Ready For Anything. It is the font of all knowledge, the place we send all questionners and best of all you get to sit down while you are manning it! I dealt with a few queries, learnt various new things and gossiped with the boss :). You gotta love that all female working envrionment for that aspect ;). My last half hour was spent doing the closing procedures. This includes closing and locking any windows throughout the building which have been opened, turning off the emergency exit alarms and bringing in the traffic cones which mark out Library staff parking spaces in the carpark, putting keys in all the various cupboards, shutting down all the computers and helppoints, cashing up the photocopier, telling any public that we are about to close and finally turning off all the lights.

Ady and the children were in the carpark waiting for me to go off food shopping. They’d had a great day out in the garden, they’d spent time cleaning Ady’s car inside and out with him – he gets his new car delivered next week 🙂 and David the Thankyou Neighbour had been over to sit and listen to the football on the radio with Ady. They’d been bathed (which means they must have been really filthy!) and fed.

We drove to Sainsburys and after a brief hiatus when I marched everyone out into the carpark, lectured them all about behaviour and then directed them back in again all was well. We were in there for ages, mostly because we got the kids to help pick things off shelves and put them in the trolleys. We finished there and got home around 730pm so the children got themselves off to bed while we put all the shopping away and then Ady read Davies a story and I read Tarly one from the massive pile I’d brought home from work.

Bath, much consumption of alcohol and a very late dinner means I will probably not be on top form tomorrow for my turn to get up but as we have a busy day of swimming lessons and opticians appointments planned I imagine I will have to get my head in the game pretty quick!